RECITAL

Merkin Hall
Young Concerts Artists Series

SooBeen Lee - Violin

A video of her playing...

Another video...

15-year-old Korean violinist SooBeen Lee has been called “Korea’s hottest violin prodigy” (Hancinema). She has already appeared as soloist with every major Korean orchestra, including the Seoul Philharmonic, the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Gangnam Symphony Orchestra, and the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System). She also performed with the Wuhan Philharmonic in China, at the Seoul Arts Center, in the Prime Minister’s office for Ki-moon Ban, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the Blue House for the King and Queen of Malaysia, and for many state guests in Korea.

This season marks her first U.S. tour, which includes her Washington, DC debut and her New York recital debut on the Young Concert Artists Series, and performances at University of Florida Performing Arts, the Sunday Musicale Series, and Rockefeller University.

Ms. Lee has performed at Festivals including the Chopin Music Festival in Poland, the City of London Festival, the Busan International Music Festival, the Great Mountains International Music Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival, and in Japan at the Ishikawa Summer Music Academy, where she worked with Koichiro Harada.

She won First Prize at the 2013 Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition and First Prize at the 2014 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where she was also honored with YCA’s Slomovic Prize, which provides support for her Washington, DC debut, the Michaels Award, which provides support for her New York debut, and three performance prizes.

Ms. Lee began studying the violin at the age of four. At eight years old, she won the National Competition of the Korean Chamber Orchestra and the next year, she won First Prize at the Russia International Youth Violin Competition. She made her Seoul recital debut at the age of nine on the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series. Ms. Lee studies with Nam Yun Kim at the Korea National University of Arts.

LINCOLN CENTER

Jazz at Lincoln Center - Appel Room
Battle of the Big Bands

Tonight's big band battle is a feel-good, dance-up-a-storm, interactive jazz experience akin to those that originated in Harlem's Swing Era landmarks. This special event showcases two of New York's hottest young big bands – together on one stage – in a high-energy evening. Drummer/bandleaders Sammy Miller and Evan Sherman, known to pack the house at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Late Night Sessions, will deliver a full sensory experience through fast-paced music, friendly one-upmanship, and a bit of comedy. Both bands are intergenerational all-star groups, and they have repeatedly proven their ability to rouse up a crowd. Join them in The Appel Room for an entertaining night of great music and uplifting companionship.

LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Mendelssohn's Berlin

Beethoven - Sonata in F major for Cello and Piano, Op. 5, No. 1 (1796)
Haydn - Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 50, No. 5, "The Dream" (1787)
Bach - Selections from the Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (1747)
Mendelssohn - Quartet in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 1 (1822)

For centuries, the energy of Berlin has attracted the world’s most ambitious artists and intellectuals. Long the epicenter of German culture, Berlin’s magnetic influence unites the composers on this special program, dedicated to the musical legacy of Mendelssohn’s home city. From the mature masterwork of J.S. Bach to the youthful, ebullient sonata by Beethoven, CMS presents a vibrant portrait of an immortal capital of music.

LECTURE

The Morgan Library & Museum
Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life

Phil Jackson and Mary Karr

Celebrating the relationship between art, literature, and film, this program features Phil Jackson, former head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, president of the New York Knicks, and author of Eleven Rings, The Soul of Success and Mary Karr American poet, essayist and author of the bestselling memoir The Liars’ Club. They will be discussing some of the films that have inspired their lives and work. Moderated by Antonio Monda, Artistic Director of Le Conversazioni festival.

RECITAL

Marble Collegiate Church
Marble Organ Anniversary Concert

Mark Miller - Organ

LECTURE/RECITAL


Merkin Hall
What Makes It Great? - Rob Kapilow

Beethoven's 1st Symphony
Featuring the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia

The great composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger said, “A genius can only be original, therefore a genius need only try to imitate in order to be original.” Intended as an homage to his illustrious predecessors Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven’s First Symphony was, inescapably, original. Host Rob Kapilow explores how this symphony – which launched the symphonic career of the young Beethoven in Vienna in 1800 – honored the Viennese tradition in a voice that was unmistakably original and uniquely his own.

Here is a teaser of what we heard... Please, listen.

Rob Kapilow spends the first hour going through the piece telling what makes it great and the second hour the piece is performed without interruption.

It becomes a wonderfully interesting evening.

MUSEUM


Met Breuer
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

As we so often do, we ride the M4 bus up Madison Avenue to get to our destination.

This major monographic exhibition is the largest museum retrospective to date of the work of American artist Kerry James Marshall (born 1955). Encompassing nearly 80 works—including 72 paintings—that span the artist's remarkable 35-year career, it reveals Marshall's practice to be one that synthesizes a wide range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the place of the black figure within the canon of Western painting.

Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to the Watts rebellion in 1965, Marshall has long been an inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African American experience. He is known for his large-scale narrative history paintings featuring black figures—defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have long been invisible—and his exploration of art history covers a broad temporal swath stretching from the Renaissance to 20th-century American abstraction. Marshall critically examines and reworks the Western canon through its most archetypal forms: the historical tableau, landscape and genre painting, and portraiture. His work also touches upon vernacular forms such as the muralist tradition and the comic book in order to address and correct, in his words, the "vacuum in the image bank" and to make the invisible visible.

Great interview of the artist...